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Protective Behaviours @ PBPeople.org.uk

Protective Behaviours is a practical down to earth approach to personal safety. It is a process that encourages self-empowerment and brings with it the skills to raise self-esteem and to help avoid being victimised. This is achieved by helping individuals to recognise and trust their intuitive feelings (Early Warning Signs) and to develop strategies for self-protection.

The Protective Behaviours process encourages an adventurous approach to life that satisfies the need for fun and excitement without violence and fear.

This Month'sFeatured Resource...

A Planet Called Shame

Our thanks go to Jane Evans, author of Little Meerkat's Big Panic and so much more, for enabling us to share this poem highlighting the toxicity of shame. Our hope is you will find it helpful and also circulate to those who shame children so they might learn the effects of shaming behaviour in a non-shaming or blaming way :)

A Planet Called Shame

When you shout at me I’m already goneSo you’re shouting at emptinessI’ve jumped in my shame rocketI’m shooting into SpaceCan’t see or hear you anymoreI can only zoom far far awayYour anger, frustration, disappointment a meteor shower spraying-pitting-burning my rocket

I land with a familiar bump on a planet called ShameI know it well I come here oftenI leave my battered rocket tumbling out on to the hardness of ShameI lay flat out in the crater of unacceptabilityI swim slowly in the pool of toxic shameI trip I stumble over the rocks of badness & unlikeabilityNothing much has changed since my last visit to planet Shame

It’s cold here on a planet called ShameIt’s lonely here on a planet called ShameIt’s scary here on a planet called ShameIt’s my destiny here on a planet called ShaneIt’s my truth here on a planet called shameI’m tired here on a planet called ShameIt’s a long way back from a planet called Shame

My rocket is damaged so I wait to be rescuedA journey full of meteor showers will do that to a rocketI want to come back but can’t call out from a planet called ShameI wait, I wait, I wait to be rescued from this far away placeI can fly rockets but I can’t fix themI need your helpWhen will you come?

The journey to a planet called Shame is always fast and furiousThe journey back is long, dark, difficult, uncomfortableYour disapproving tone, look, sigh, shrug is fuel for my rocketYour compassionate acceptance rescues and restores my rocketI’ve had enough of visiting a planet called ShameI prefer a planet called GOOD ENOUGHHelp me spend more time there

By Jane Evans

To read more about Jane's work, including her regular blogs, please visit thejaneevans.com

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